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How to Use Manage Views Editor

If you arrived here from Workstation, see the Workstation Document Authoring Help.

You can specify how to display documents on mobile devices by using Mobile Views. Mobile Views allow you to quickly and easily determine how the elements of a document are displayed when the user rotates the mobile device. Mobile Views also allow you to design documents to accommodate mobile devices with different screen sizes, such as the iPhone and iPad. For more details on using Mobile Views, see the MicroStrategy Mobile Administration Help.

Steps are below to:

  • Add a Mobile View to a document and specify options to help determine which Mobile View is displayed when the document is shown on a mobile device, including the height, width, and orientation for which the Mobile View is designed to be displayed.
  • Delete a Mobile View from a document.
  • Hide or delete a control in a document with Mobile Views
  • Determine which Mobile View to use to display a document in Design and Editable Mode in Web.

To define a Mobile View in a document

  1. Open the document in Design Mode or Editable Mode.

  2. From the Tools menu, select Manage Views. The Manage Views Editor opens.

    A default Mobile View is automatically displayed in the list of Mobile Views, and cannot be deleted.

  3. Click the Duplicate icon next to an existing Mobile View. A new Mobile View is automatically created.
  4. In the Name field, type a name for the new Mobile View.

  5. Under the Resolution column, specify the height and width of the mobile device screen on which you want to display the Mobile View, as follows:

    1. In the first field, type the width, in pixels, of the device screen.
    2. In the second field, type the height, in pixels, of the device screen.

  6. You can specify whether the Mobile View is designed to be displayed on a mobile device when the device is held vertically or horizontally. From the Orientation drop-down, select one of the following:

    • To display the Mobile View when the device is held vertically, select Portrait Only.
    • To display the Mobile View when the device is held horizontally, select Landscape Only.
    • To display the same Mobile View when the device is held vertically or horizontally, select Portrait and Landscape. This option is selected by default.
  7. Repeat the appropriate steps above to define each Mobile View.
  8. You can determine which Mobile View to display in Design Mode and Editable Mode when the document is viewed in Web. Under the Current column, select the Mobile View you want to display.
  9. To delete an existing Mobile View, click the Delete icon next to the Mobile View you want to delete.

  10. You can choose to show all document controls in Design Mode in Web, regardless of whether they are marked as hidden. For example, you design a Mobile View to be displayed on the mobile device. The Mobile View contains several controls that will be displayed on the mobile device, as well as a grid that is marked as hidden and will not be displayed. You can choose to display all the controls in Design Mode, including the grid. Do one of the following:

    • To display all controls in Design Mode, regardless of whether they are hidden, select the Show hidden objects in Design Mode checkbox.
    • To display in Design Mode only the controls that are specified as not hidden, clear the Show hidden objects in Design Mode checkbox.
  11. Click OK.

  12. Add controls to the document, such as text fields, images, graphs, and so on. For more information on adding controls to a document, see the Document Creation Help. When you add a new control to the document, a message is displayed asking if you would like to make the control visible in all Mobile Views. Do one of the following:

    To make the control visible in all views, select Yes.

    To make the control visible in only the current Mobile View, select No.

To determine which Mobile View to display in Web

You can determine which Mobile View to display in Design Mode and Editable Mode when the document is displayed in Web, as described below.

  1. Open the document in Design Mode or Editable Mode.
  2. From the Tools menu, select Manage Views.
  3. Under the Current column, select the Mobile View to display.
  4. Click OK.

To delete a Mobile View from a document

  1. Open the document in Design Mode or Editable Mode.
  2. From the Tools menu, select Manage Views.
  3. To delete an existing Mobile View, click the Delete icon next to the Mobile View you want to delete.
  4. Click OK.

To hide or delete a control in a document with Mobile Views

Once you have added a Mobile View to the document, you can choose to delete individual controls entirely from the document, or hide them from display in a specific Mobile View, as described below.

  1. Open the document in Design Mode or Editable Mode.
  2. Select the control to hide or delete.

  3. Click Delete.